Killed for trying to make Iraqi kids laugh
sunday times/23 April 06

Is it even wrong to try relief unhappiness among these Iraqi young kids? Should these kids not have the rights to experience a happy childhhood as similar to majority of the kids in the more developed countries?

Like every other circus, where the circus performers would clown around to make kids happy, for that, they were executed by self appointed moral guardians of Baghdad. Initially, they were planning an eleven day festival to help youngsters forget momentarily the death and violence they witness in the city. However, this event were being sabotaged by armed militaries.

From my point of view, I see two group of victims in this picture. One, the circus performers and secondly, the deprived young kids. First of all, the circus performers were innocently killed, over wanting to help the young kids forget about the bloody moments and as such to distess their thoughts of revenge, which may create lesser problems in our community in the future.However, they were being killed over their good intentions. Secondly, I do not see the reason why the Iraqi leaders would want to allow their younger generations to live in a world full of hatred and fear. The younger generations would eventually become leaders of their country in the future, but, if they were to be constantly exposed to such threats, history would just repeat itself. Leaders in the future would be similar to the present of wanting to eradicate their enemy rather than to seek a better future for their citizens. Apparently, this vicious cycle would carry on if they do not try to view the world in a bird's eye view. Therefore, I believe more justice have to be carried out in order to impose the right laws.